V. Their manner was to come into the ==Chambers== of people, and fetch

away their children upon Beasts, of the Devils providing: promising ==Fine Clothes== and other Fine Things unto them, to inveagle them. They said, they never had power to do thus, till of late; but now the Devil did ==Plague== and ==Beat== them, if they did not gratifie him, in this piece of Mischief. They said, they made use of all sorts of ==Instruments== in their Journeys! Of ==Men==, of ==Beasts==, of ==Posts==; the _Men_ they commonly laid asleep at the place, whereto they rode them; and if the children mentioned the ==Names== of them that stole them away, =they= were miserably ==Scourged== for it, until some of them were killed. The ==Judges== found the marks of the Lashes on some of them; but the Witches said, ==They would Quickly vanish==. Moreover the Children would be in ==Strange Fits==, after they were brought Home from these Transportations.